E-mail

Your user account at the Department of Computing Science includes
e-mail services which may be used both locally from UNIX
machines and from programs such as Mozilla Thunderbird,
Mail.app, Outlook and similar.

Reading mail within the department

You can either read e-mail using programs such as
pine or mutt on UNIX machines, or use
Thunderbird, Mail.app, Outlook, etc. See the next point if you choose the
latter alternative. If you are using a Windows machine, you can log onto
a UNIX machine using
PuTTY.

Reading your @umu.se mail (for staff)

Archives for course mailing lists

The mailing lists of all courses are archived, and are accessible
by all with accounts on the departmental systems, regardless
of whether or not that person is enrolled in the course.
Access is via this
link to course
mailing lists.
You will be prompted for your user name and password before
being granted entry. Thus, only valid users have access to
these archives.

Customizations for mailing lists

It is advantageous to make a few customizations regarding membership
in various mailing lists; for example, if one wants to receive
a copy of one's own messages to the list.

Note! You should
not use this tool to subscribe or unsubscribe
to course lists. If you add or delete
yourself from a list yourself, this information will disappear
the next day, as these lists are synchronized nightly with
information obtained from the university administration. If
you believe that your membership, or lack thereof, in such a
list is in error, please contact the
Office of Student Services so that
a proper adjustment may be made.